Monthly Archives: September 2022

Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/30/2022

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Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the annexation of the four regions of Ukraine that voted to join Russia in recent referenda. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky responded by making a formal request for Ukraine to join NATO.

In other news, Hurricane Ian made landfall near Charleston, South Carolina, and headed inland on a northward track towards North Carolina and Virginia.

To see the headlines and the articles, click “Continue reading” below.

Thanks to Dean, DV, JW, MM, Reader from Chicago, Roger, Upananda Brahmachari, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

Notice to tipsters: Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.

Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. I check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.

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Batik Witches Rule!

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In Sweden, the phrase “batik witch” (batikhäxa) is a colloquial term for a progressive woman involved in refugees-welcome activism. I presume “batik” refers to a clothing style favored by such women.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from Fria Tider:

“Grumpy batik witch” convicts Katerina Janouch of defamation

September 22, 2022

Immigration critic profiler and children’s book author, Katerina Janouch was convicted today for gross defamation of a teacher who she accused of forcing pupils to profess Islam.

“Of course, I was convicted in the Uppsala PK court,” Janouch commented after the conviction.

Katerina Janouch wrote a blog post in March 2020 about an assignment that pupils received in the third grade at a school in Tierp.

A parent had contacted Janouch about the way schoolchildren were forced to write texts from a Muslim perspective and, among other things, describe how they pray to Allah and visit the mosque.

“9-year-old forced to confess to Islam,” read the headline of Katerina Janouch’s post, in which the school and teacher were named.

“I myself am so mad I am boiling. How can they do this? We are Christians and my child should not be forcibly Islamized in school teaching,” said the mother of one of the children that Janouch wrote about.

The district court finds that Katerina Janouch — who has a large number of followers on social media — by posting the teacher’s name, is guilty of gross defamation. She is sentenced to a suspended sentence and fifty daily fines of 150 kronor [$14]. She must also pay damages of 50,000 kronor [$4,500] to the teacher.

On Twitter, Janouch comments on the verdict and reports that it will be appealed.

“Of course, I was convicted in the Uppsala PK-Court by a grumpy batik witch who has no problem with the Islamization and humiliation of small children. The teacher wants 50,000 in “damages”. An appeal to the appellate court, for sure!”, she writes and continues:

“I expected to be convicted, since the judiciary is a wreck, and we already have sharia law in which it is forbidden to criticize Islam and its apologists.”

The Carbon Dioxide Fraud

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I have a feeling that when the coming gas-free winter gets into full swing, the average European is going to look favorably on the idea of “global warming”.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Der Wochenblick:

Fear campaigns and scaremongering

The CO2 tax: The biggest economic fraud in human history

There would only be an increase in the pseudo-religious fanaticism of the climate sect: one could still tax the oxygen that we consume in our breathing. The penalty for evading such taxes would be death by asphyxiation.

In accordance with its political mandate, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) deals almost exclusively with the allegedly manmade climate change. Since natural climate fluctuations are ignored, most natural scientists have left the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is why left-wing sociologists and political scientists are now spreading their ideology in this UN body.

A guest post by Dr. Rudiger Potsch MD

The pseudo-religious hysteria of the climate fanatics should have come to an end at the latest after the proven falsification of Michael Mann’s “Hockey Stick Graph”.

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The opposite is the case: The monomaniacal, CO2-fixated exorcism of the climate sectarians celebrates happy origins: The CO2 and temperature course of the earth’s history is ruthlessly and concrete-headedly ignored!

Today’s temperature level was reached on Earth 2.5 billion years ago. During the last approximately 540 million years (Phanerozoic) in which life has been recorded, the climate was warmer than today. The Earth was free of ice.

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Five million years ago, climate phases alternated in cycles of 20,000 to 40,000 years due to the obliquity and precession of the Earth’s axis. For 900,000 years, a change in climate cycles has dominated over a period of about 100,000 years, due to the eccentricity of the earth’s orbit around the sun.

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The Holocene began about 12,000 years ago (without industry and without combustion engines!), today’s warm period, which was mostly warmer than in the 20th century!

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And how did the CO2 content of the atmosphere behave? For almost the entire history of our planet, the atmosphere contained more CO2 than it does today! 500 million years ago, CO2 levels were twenty times higher than they are now! Then the CO2 content of this so-called “greenhouse gas” dropped to where it is today as plants spread across the earth:

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Water, Water Everywhere

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I had a little plumbing emergency here at Schloss Bodissey today. There was water all over the bathroom (and probably down in the crawl space, too, but I’ll deal with that later). The problem is ongoing, but at least the leak has stopped. I just have to live without hot water until the plumber gets here.

The situation has slowed down my posting this evening, but I may get a couple of things up before the news feed, if all goes well.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/29/2022

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Inflation in Germany has reached double digits for the first time since the euro was introduced in 1999. Meanwhile, Hungary is eliminating all non-essential budget expenditures due to the out-of-control energy prices brought on by EU sanctions against Russia.

In other news, Hurricane Ian weakened to a tropical storm before crossing Florida’s east coast into the Atlantic, whereupon it strengthened into a hurricane again, and is expected to make landfall in Charleston tomorrow afternoon as a Category 1.

To see the headlines and the articles, click “Continue reading” below.

Thanks to Dean, Dora, DV, LP, MissPiggy, MM, Reader from Chicago, Roger, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

Notice to tipsters: Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.

Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. I check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.

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Et Tu, Russki?

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Germany is already swamped with “refugees”. The usual suspects — Afghans, Syrians, Iraqis, etc. — keep pouring in, to which Ukrainians may now be added, and maybe even Russians. All this while Germans prepare to shiver in the dark during a gasless winter.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Bild. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:

And Now the Russians?

Over 1.1 million refugees!

Around 1.1 million people fled to Germany in 2022

Cities and municipalities are now sounding the alarm

The figures announced by the Federal Ministry of the Interior are unbelievably high: This year alone, 992,517 war refugees from Ukraine (as of September 17, 2022) have come to Germany. At the same time, the usual migration routes are back in full swing.

By August, 115,402 initial applications for asylum had been made, mainly by Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis. A total of more than 1.1 million people, that is more than Cologne has inhabitants.

The municipalities are now warning of overloading like in 2015. The general manager of the association of towns and municipalities, Gerd Landsberg, told Bild am Sonntag: “The municipalities are already facing a situation like in 2015 and 2016, and there are many indications that many more people will flee to Germany in the winter.” Putin is deliberately destroying infrastructure in Ukraine that people need in winter. At the same time, poverty, unemployment and food shortages are growing in other parts of the world. [Why is that? Why aren’t they researching and questioning all this willful destruction of farmland by governments and private business? One wonders why that is.]

“There are already many municipalities that have to accommodate people in gyms because all other capacities are exhausted. If that increases even further, then we are heading for a real bottleneck in accommodation in winter,” warns Landsberg.

His sober conclusion: “Many standards would have to be temporarily overridden.” Means: school classes and daycare groups will have to be larger. City Day President Markus Lewe calls for federal and state real estate to be prepared as accommodation in a less bureaucratic manner.

The situation is getting worse, especially in Brandenburg, Baden-Württemberg and North Rhine-Westphalia. The government in Düsseldorf has already announced a freeze on admissions. The Baden-Württemberg Minister of Migration Marion Gentges (51, CDU) also told Bild am Sonntag: Housing and administrative staff are “meanwhile largely exhausted”.

Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (52, SPD) admits: “The longer the war lasts, the more difficult it is to house and care for so many refugees.” [And whose fault is that? Who is drum-rolling for that war to continue?]

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How Males Became Toxic

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In the following essay MC digs into the core of the current Gender Wars.

How Males Became Toxic

by MC

It is true that many men beat their female partners, but in the UK the statistics show that more women use violence against their spouses than do men. It is just that the men do more harm because they are bigger and stronger — yep, men are physically different; both in their minds and in their musculature and skeleton, let alone other physical differences.

In time of war, when home and hearth are threatened, then the fighting male is a hero, but what happened in the Pax Americana? Just how did the male become ‘toxic’?

I was born six years after the end of WW2. I was born into a world where men had duties and responsibilities, and in which all men (in the UK) served ‘National Service’ during which they were taught to fight, to be warriors. I fired my first rifle at age 10, a .303 SMLE re-barrelled to take .22 long. We were not allowed to handle the bayonet; that was considered too dangerous.

That I could hit the target at age 10 (but could not even properly lift the rifle unaided) was a huge joke to the Royal Marine instructor.

Later, at the grammar school I attended, we had Combined Cadet Force (CCF) and I got to shoot full clips of .303. In an earlier age I would have been trained as part of a Lewis or Vickers machine gun crew.

Also, in the boy scouts (sea scouts) we had regular interaction with the Royal Navy, which was old hat to me, being the son of a Naval Officer. I have a vivid memory of standing on the quarterdeck of HMS Vanguard, the last of the British battleships, looking up at the 15 inch guns, and my father threatening to send me to crawl up the gun barrel to polish it…

In the 1950s and 1960s men (and boys) had a part to play in society. It was accepted that in the end, we had to send our sons, husbands and fathers to war to defend the homeland if necessary, and that we young lads were the last line of defence.

So boys could be boys — because boys had to learn to be warriors and to be MEN!

But!

That all changed…

Hey, Bungalow Bill
What did you kill
Bungalow Bill?
He went out tiger hunting with his elephant and gun
In case of accidents he always took his mum
He’s the all American bullet-headed saxon mother’s son
All the children sing
Hey, Bungalow Bill
What did you kill

Deep in the jungle where the mighty tiger lies
Bill and his elephants were taken by surprise
So Captain Marvel zapped him right between the eyes
All the children sing…
The children asked him if to kill was not a sin
”Not when he looked so fierce”, his mummy butted in
”If looks could kill it would have been us instead of him”
All the children sing…

The slow poison of opinion changed. Martial male pursuits became toxic, and with it came the feminisation of society. But not female as such, a much more a male-envy form of female.

Unique to the female is the giving of life, and of nurturing and feeding that life, but these female warriors were not interested in motherhood; their war was against male ‘privilege’. The Pax Americana meant that in the short term males were superfluous, and could be dumped like so much military surplus, and as for motherhood — how uncool!. To share your body with an embryo human, one that would need effort and treasure for twenty years or so.

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The Trail Leads to Pakistan

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In April of 2021 a young Pakistani woman named Saman Abbas disappeared in Italy, and was presumed to have been “honor-killed” by her parents and male relatives. Below is another new report with information on the case.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from Corriere della Sera:

Saman Abbas: In Pakistan, the federal police on the trail of the father to arrest him

by Alessandro Fulloni and Andrea Pasqualetto

New impetus for the investigation. The girl’s brother: “ I looked for the body in the greenhouses.” Three months before she disappeared, she had written her black list with five names: all under investigation. The interviews: How it went that night.

The searches

A risk that seems to have been averted last year by a sort of protection on the part of the local police in Punjab, where the Abbas’ reside. But which now could turn through the federal police of Pakistan, which depends on the army. This, at least, is the news that comes back from Islamabad. Last year, everything had been grounded on the part of the Pakistan national cabinet chaired by the prime minister. The Pakistani magistrate had to respond to the Italian letters rogatory, proceeding to the examination of the documentation from Reggio Emilia through Rome, in order to then proceed to arrest. “But no response, of any kind, ever arrived,” the Foreign Ministry explains. But now there is this new impetus.

I looked for her in the greenhouses

Returning to the dramatic evening, the brother understood everything, and it was confirmed to him by the uncle, Danish, accused of being the material perpetrator of the crime: “I killed her; don’t say anything to the Carabinieri.” The boy, who had seen the uncle take Saman away while putting a hand over her mouth, gasped. He asked where his sister was. “I wanted to hug her for the last time, but he answered that he couldn’t tell me.” Given the circumstances and the times, he thought that Danish had killed her in a greenhouse on the farm, perhaps strangling her, imagining also that he might have cut her into pieces and buried her or thrown her into the Po river. “In Pakistan, that’s how they do it.” They do this with women who betray or refuse an arranged marriage, Saman’s sin. With this frightening idea that evening, the brother of Saman, therefore, went to close the greenhouses.” First, I walked around inside looking for my sister’s body, but I didn’t find it.”

Saman was not afraid

He had his heart in his throat and a sense of infinite guilt. It was he who showed the photo of the kiss with a boyfriend disliked by the family. And it was always he who kept them up to date on her relationships, naturally, without imagining the tragic consequences. “My sister had already escaped two times, once in Belgium and one time from the community, and in our religion, that’s a big mistake…” the boy said on May 15, 2021, noting that he had always feared his uncle a lot: “She, on the other hand, had no fear of him and talked back to him, and this he didn’t like.” It was always like that. And in that period, the situation had further worsened.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/28/2022

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Russia called for a meeting of the UN Security Council over the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines, and blamed the United States for the attack. The Biden administration, however, said Russia was responsible for the sabotage. Meanwhile, the US government urged all Americans to leave Russia immediately.

In other news, Hurricane Ian made landfall near Cayo Costa on the west coast of Florida as a Category 4 storm, but gradually weakened to a Category 1 as it moved inland.

To see the headlines and the articles, click “Continue reading” below.

Thanks to Dean, DV, JF, LP, MM, Reader from Chicago, Roger, SS, Upananda Brahmachari, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

Notice to tipsters: Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.

Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. I check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.

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Pregnant With Meaninglessness

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I have an extensive image library with graphics for all occasions — or so I thought. This evening, when I went looking for something to illustrate a story about a pregnant trans-man, unfortunately I couldn’t find anything. However, I stumbled across the poster above, which will just have to do. It’s a sojourn down memory lane for hippies of a certain age.

The following article was originally published in German, but it concerns the latest trans insanity from the UK. Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Boris Reitschuster’s website:

ZDF wants to sell us pregnant men as normal trans-propaganda for [TV license] fee money

I’m probably hopelessly old-fashioned. And my level of knowledge is completely outdated. Anyway, that’s the conclusion I should actually draw from a new ZDF tweet. See for yourself:

ZDF presents us with a man who has been pregnant twice and has given birth to two children. #ReformOerr #OERRBlog pic.twitter.com/Yh6m1LhbQL

— ÖRR Blog. (@OERRBlog) September 25, 2022

I have to admit quite frankly — even at the risk that some “woke” contemporaries will classify me as a “Nazi” — that I have always assumed that only women can bring children into the world. Maybe you, too? Then we are something like fellow victims.

ZDF now wants to teach us otherwise. For which we also have to foot the bill ourselves with our [TV] license fees.

The fee broadcaster’s tweet is pure propaganda. According to Duden [dictionary], this is defined as the “systematic dissemination of political, ideological or similar ideas and opinions with the aim of influencing general awareness in a certain way.”

And here the wish is clearly conveyed that in the future it shouldn’t matter who carries a child. And subliminally gives the impression that it is normal for men to have children.

But it is not. And children can only be given birth to by men who were born as women. And who didn’t have her uterus removed. And during the time of pregnancy, do without the hormone treatment that you otherwise need to be a man.

I wish everyone the happiness of having a child. And I’m happy for every trans-man who can make this dream come true. But I don’t want to be showered with propaganda from stations funded by public money.

Apparently it’s not just me.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/27/2022

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Enrico Letta has resigned as leader of the Democratic Party in Italy in the wake of his overwhelming defeat by Giorgia Meloni and the Fratelli d’Italia. Meanwhile, former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said that the characterization of Ms. Meloni as a fascist is absolutely false.

In other news, Hurricane Ian is expected to make landfall in the Tampa Bay area of Florida in about 24 hours as a Category 3 storm, or possibly even a Category 4.

To see the headlines and the articles, click “Continue reading” below.

Thanks to Dean, JW, Reader from Chicago, Roger, SS, Upananda Brahmachari, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

Notice to tipsters: Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.

Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. I check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.

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The Queen of the Vax

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Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from JournalistenWatch. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:

A criminal business? Von der Leyen under pressure over vaccine deal

And this lady wants to defend Europe’s democracy!

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is under pressure because of a multi-billion dollar contract for the delivery of 1.8 billion Corona vaccine doses from the manufacturer Pfizer/BioNTech. Members of the EU Parliament accuse von der Leyen of keeping important information about the preparation of the contract under lock and key and are calling for clarification. The chairman of the budget control committee, Monika Hohlmeier (CSU), told the newspapers of the Funke media group (Monday editions) that the control committee would reprimand the commission. [How are they are going to do that? Wag a finger at her and tell her she was a bad girl and shouldn’t do it again?]

The spokesman for the German Greens in the EU Parliament, Rasmus Andresen, told the Funke Newspaper that the contract with Pfizer was in need of explanation. “Von der Leyen has to come clean here, publish documents and comment on allegations.” The public has a right to know how the deals with the vaccine manufacturers came about. [Who’s going to read it if the mainstream media are mum about it?]

The parliamentary group leader of the Left in the EU Parliament, Martin Schirdewan, said that “the President of the Commission is doing democracy and the reputation of the EU a disservice with her disrespectful behavior.” It’s about billions of tax dollars. The trigger for the criticism from the EU Parliament is a report by the European Court of Auditors.

He complains that he asked the Commission for information about preliminary negotiations on the contract, but did not receive it. According to the findings of the Court of Auditors, von der Leyen conducted preliminary negotiations on the contract with the pharmaceutical company Pfizer in March 2021 and negotiated conditions that the Commission then submitted to the responsible steering committee. The contract, which was then signed in May 2021, is the most extensive Corona vaccine contract in the EU, the examiners write in a special report on vaccine procurement.

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Biden: “There Will Be No Longer a Nord Stream 2”

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There will be a lot of material in tonight’s news feed (for example, this Reuters article) about the sabotage of Nord Stream 2 and a parallel pipeline under the Baltic Sea near Sweden, just off the Danish island of Bornholm. Billions of dollars worth of Russian natural gas is now bubbling up through the seawater and into the atmosphere. The sabotage of the pipelines means that Europe can no longer receive any Russian gas through the undersea route, even if it were to reconsider sanctions against Russia.

The big question is: Whodunit?

The United States would like to pin the blame on the Russians, who are said to have carried out a false flag attack on their own pipeline. However, various factors, not least the video below, point to the Western alliance as the more likely culprit.

The following brief clip shows President Joe Biden’s remarks about Nord Stream 2 from a news conference early this year, just before the war in Ukraine began. He promised the reporter that the USA would put an end to the pipeline if Russia were to invade Ukraine.

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for uploading this video:


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Diana West: The Silence of the Institutions

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As most readers already know, Diana West is the author of American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character. In the following video, Vlad interviews Diana about the COVID hysteria, and the subsequent experimental mRNA treatment that was marketed as a mitigation of the effects of infection with the virus.

Because real information concerning the “vaccines” is largely occluded, discussions about what is going on must of necessity be speculative. There are, however, a few undeniable facts. For example: the propaganda push behind the vax has been the greatest I’ve ever encountered in my lifetime, far greater than any wartime propaganda. Which is remarkable, given that COVID-19 is relatively mild, as contagious diseases go.

That alone tells you that there’s more to this “pandemic” than meets the eye.

Then there are the excess deaths. We’re in the early stages of data collection on this issue, but it’s already clear that something not directly related to Corona is killing a lot of people. No one can say for certain what the causes might be, but what’s happening now is exactly what was predicted by independent critics of the mRNA jabs back in late 2020, before mass “vaccination” began.

Those are just two of the relevant facts. There are many others, such as the bizarre and frightening blood clots that are being pulled out of the circulatory systems of cadavers during autopsies.

Something evil is definitely afoot.

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for uploading this video:


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